Saikat Chakrabarti, a political activist of Indian origin, will challenge the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, for her seat in San Francisco in the United States Congress. The 39-year-old has previously administered the electoral campaign for the representative of the House of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and worked with the Vermont Bernie Sanders senator.
On Wednesday, Mr. Chakrabarti announced his candidacy for the mid -period elections of 2026 in X, previously Twitter, saying that after seeing Donald Trump and Elon Musk “freely unleash chaos in his illegal seizure of the government,” was Of course, the Democratic Party needed new leadership. “I respect what Nancy Pelosi has achieved in his career, but we are living in a totally different America from what he knew when he entered politics 45 years ago,” he said.
Mrs. Pelosi, 84, has not yet announced her re -election offer, but presented her statement of candidacy before the Federal Electoral Commission last November.
Who is Saikat Chakrabarti?
1. Born in 1986 in an Indian Bengali family in Fort Worth, Texas, Saikat Chakrabarti graduated from Harvard University in 2007 with a degree in computer science. After that, he moved to California and co -founded Mockingbird, a technological startup. He was also the founding engineer of Stripe, a payment processing company.
2. After almost 8 years working in the technology industry, Chakrabarti entered the political sphere and associated with the presidential campaign of Vermont Bernie Sanders. After the presidential offer of Sanders came to an end, Chakrabarti and others founded a political action committee called the New Congress.
3. Mr. Chakrabarti successfully helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in his Congress campaign for the seat in New York in the United States Congress. He was his campaign manager and first cabinet chief before deciding to return to San Francisco.
4. It was also at the forefront of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the new green agreement of other progressive groups, which sought to address economic inequality and climate change. He has also expressed his opposition to the application of immigration and customs (ICE) and supports his abolition.
5. Mr. Chakrabarti was also in the “Energy List of the Play Book” of Politic political panorama of the country the following year.
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